Xinming Du

I am an Assistant Professor at Department of Economics, National University of Singapore. I work on environmental economics, applied micro, and the digital economy.

I received my Ph.D. from the Sustainable Development program at Columbia University in 2023.

CV (February 2024)

Email: xd2197@columbia.edu xdu@nus.edu.sg

Upcoming trips:

I will be visiting the Salata Institute at Harvard University in Fall 2024.

May 23: NBER EEPE (Washington DC)
May 29-31: AERE (Washington DC)
Jun 10-11: LSE/Imperial Workshop in Env Econ (London)
Jun 16-19: ASHEcon (San Diego)

Working papers:

Airlines, Pollution, and Fertility (with Charles A Taylor)

SSRN March 2024 version

Symptom or Culprit? Social Media, Air Pollution, and Violence

Columbia CEEP WP 24, CESifo WP 10296

When Growth Stumbles, Pollute? Trade War, Environmental Enforcement, and Pollution (with Lei Li)

Columbia CEEP WP 26, May 2022 version, August 2020 version

Household Penalty (with Krzysztof Zaremba)

Publications:

Douglas Almond, Xinming Du, Anna Papp (2022). Favourability towards Natural Gas Relates to Funding Source of University Energy Centres. Nature Climate Change, 12: 1122–1128.
Douglas Almond, Xinming Du (2020). Later Bedtimes Predict President Trump’s Performance. Economics Letters, 197: 109590.
Douglas Almond, Xinming Du, Valerie Karplus, Shuang Zhang (2021). Ambiguous Air Pollution Effects of China's COVID-19 Lock-Down. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 111: 376-80.
Xinming Du (2023). Competing with Clean Air: Pollution Disclosure and College Desirability. Ecological Economics, 204: 107631.
Douglas Almond, Xinming Du, Alana Vogel (2022). Reduced Trolling on Russian Holidays and Daily US Presidential Election Odds. PLOS ONE, 17(3): e0264507.
Junjie Zhang, Zhenxuan Wang, Xinming Du (2017). Lessons Learned from China's Regional Carbon Market Pilots. Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 0(2).

Teaching:

Schedule an appointment: https://calendly.com/xd2197/office-hours

EC2383 Environmental Economics: Syllabus
EC4305 Applied Econometrics: Syllabus

Selected Media Coverage:

Podcast on social media and violence, with Jennifer Doleac, Probable Causation (December 2023)
Biden has a profound choice to make on LNG expansion, by Bill McKibben, The New Yorker (October 2023)
Fossil fuel companies donated $700m to US universities over 10 years, by Amy Westervelt, The Guardian (March 2023)
How oil & gas funding distorts energy research, Yahoo News (November 2022)
Trump’s sleepless nights, trustworthy faces, and importing hate, Boston Globe (October 2020)

``Economics is the study of the optimal allocation of scarce resources. Climate stability and survivable environment are increasingly scarce resources.''